Sentences with phrase «of real background»

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«Part of that is conversation about policy, where are we going to go with gun safety, background checks, those are real conversations we need to have.»

Asian Americans and the issue of affirmative action have long been used to drive a wedge between communities of color and obfuscate the real purpose of the program, which brings opportunity to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In one of the scariest movies ever made, director William Friedkin uses his background as a documentary filmmaker to create horror that feels so real, some people fainted while watching the movie when it was first in theaters.

My Rotman Executive MBA class was a diverse group of forward - thinking, hard - working individuals from surprising backgrounds: in a team of doctors, lawyers, general managers, senior executives, financial whizzes and real estate directors, we also had musicians, artists and educators.

Employers can learn which skills, real - world company experience and educational background offers the greatest predictor of a candidate or employee's future success at their organization.

Michael's diverse background in commercial real estate also includes 14 years as Senior Director of Real Estate at Arden Realty, a GE Capital Company where he supervised the leasing of the western region office portfolio and completed over 15 million square feet of leases with values exceeding $ 4 billreal estate also includes 14 years as Senior Director of Real Estate at Arden Realty, a GE Capital Company where he supervised the leasing of the western region office portfolio and completed over 15 million square feet of leases with values exceeding $ 4 billReal Estate at Arden Realty, a GE Capital Company where he supervised the leasing of the western region office portfolio and completed over 15 million square feet of leases with values exceeding $ 4 billion.

I live and work in Los Angeles as a network television editor (The Real World, RuPaul's Drag Race, Epic Meal Time — and I have a background in documentary filmmaking and music videos (University of Southern California Cinema - Television degree).

The agriculture minister's background as a paid union organizer raises serious questions about the real intent of Bill 6.

The BCG team comprises an energetic group of more than 40 forward - thinking construction professionals drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds and real - world experience.

Aside from the unacceptable optics, evidence shows that boards composed of people with diverse skills, cultural backgrounds, gender and experience — just like the real world — are more effective than less diverse boards, Leblanc says.

While information respective to a customer profile about background, job functions with related titles, reporting, motivations, pain points, needs, fears, and wants can be derived with some degree of research, the real value is in uncovering profound unarticulated insights and not - so obvious goals that lead to a winning customer strategy and a competitive differentiator.

Mr. Wedgbury's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from Wilfrid Laurier University and the Urban Land Economics Diploma (Real Estate) from the University of British Columbia.

By way of background, I've invested in physical real estate in Honolulu, San Francisco, and Lake Tahoe since the mid-1990s, REITs since the late - 1990s, and now real estate crowdfunding since 2016.

In contrast to this background of smooth planes in muted colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide.»

Whether it's politics, science, history of literature... the young mind absorbs so much info but has not background to know what is real or not.

Suffice it to say that there are few quotidian moments in Gerard's account of a life and an apostolate lived for nearly twenty years against the background of the real risk of arrest, imprisonment, torture and horrible, but longed for, martyrdom.

Nonetheless, he was justified in raising the question of meaningfulness, and his real contribution to the discussion lay in his probing the question of meaning, particularly against the background of religious experience and biblical presuppositions.

Please — you obviously haven't the ability or open - mindedness to understand Faith so maybe you could think of keeping quiet till you have some REAL background knowledge, eh?

This is the context within which one must understand the Whiteheadian assertion with which we opened this analysis: «Extension is the most general scheme of real potentiality, providing the background for all other organic relations» (PR 105).

Students of old school, hard news, print journalism learn a writing method known as the «inverted pyramid,» in which the raw facts are presented up front, and are given the most real estate, with all the other information and background details trailing off behind them.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

As we begin to know others of different backgrounds, our abstract labels tend to fade in the presence of our real, flesh and blood presence with one another, and we become less inclined to demonize the other.

For those who are interested, to naturally eliminate one's own cultural background (which would amount to cultural suicide of ones actually true real self) 3 - 5 generations which is equivalent to about 300 - 500 years.

The value of the original energy field is unknown, but if the field had just the right strength, and the orresponding distortion in the cosmic microwave background appears, it would suggest that the Big Bounce and space - time quantum loops are real.

To conclude: Luther — and in our own time several others, notably (I would say) Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil — insisted that the truly indispensable mark of the church is (in Luther's language) «the mark of the holy cross»: that is, that the disciple community must experience in real and concrete ways the suffering of the world that is the anthropological background of the gospel of the cross.

Here is an explicit allusion to a «heavenly process» as the real foundation and background of the mythical narrative.

But it was not long before Dobzhkansky revealed to me his real interest in the philosophy of biology and his more vague interest in religion, which came from his Russian Orthodox background.

Machines are thus seen to constrict rather than aid civilization by relegating the human spirit more and more to the background of the real shapers of society — our technological inventions.

The mythological world of ancient man forms the real background for the appreciation of the Old Testament, and the first thing which strikes one is that the Old Testament contains so much writing of history.

I had the benefit of working for incredible chefs, hoteliers, restaurant owners and operators, and I have a real passion to take that background and help others benefit from those experiences.

Real Chocolate written by Chantal in 2003 was one of the first chocolate books I ever owned; reading the background and history of this most wonderful of substances, got me hooked (if it was possible to be even more hooked than I already was).

I'm from a Lebanese background — tahini paste — the real stuff last outside of a fridge well over a year.

Launched in the Bay Area in 2006, Sprouts Cooking Club teaches children from all socioeconomic, physical and mental health backgrounds the importance of healthy, nutritional foods through hands - on cooking with REAL chefs using REAL ingredients in REAL restaurants.

It's gentle background flavour is addictive and the real star of the show.

Houston's Dr. Denton Cooley, one of the world's leading authorities on heart transplants, claims a background in athletics is a real advantage to the prospective surgeon.

With United spending much of the last month posturing with Real Madrid for the signature of Alvaro Morata, which saw bids being rejected and United making spurious offers, whilst in the background doing all the legwork to get a deal for Lukaku over the line, the interest in Matic could well have been similar with United wanting everyone to believe they were looking to sign Morata and Matic, opting for Lukaku and another, possibly Dier.

I don't know quite when that desire, which is still there somewhere in the background, started to dissipate but there has undoubtedly been a real tarnishing of his legacy.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

We don't have TV (we just stream shows from Netflix / Amazon), so we don't get bombarded by all the commercials for sugary cereals, fruit roll ups, ect... I also have a nutrition background and understand the importance of «real food» vs the processed sweetened snacks / foods.

To give you some background, Captain Fairfield Inn was the very first hotel by Lark, and a large portrait of the real «Captain Fairfield» hangs in the entryway.

Give your sweetie a photograph card of tropical leaves that says «you're my person», or if you prefer there are also photograph cards that say «I like you, no like a lot» and «you're a real cutie» with a floral background which all can be printed onto white cardstock.

I'm passionate about using my background in teaching and real life experience parenting in the age of devices to empower parents in fostering a love of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in their children.

With a strong background in training development for Fortune 500 companies, and a passion for putting real - world tools in the hands of over 60,000 parents in 20 countries in 6 continents across the globe, Amy McCready has become a parenting expert of choice.

Bolt's inspection report, carried out throughout 2017, paints a stark picture of a scheme that is causing real harm to migrants - both documented and undocumented - people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and society at large.

There is a risk otherwise that the persistent background briefing and grumbling could continue up to and possibly through the election campaign, affecting our ability to concentrate all of our energies on getting our real message across.

«A real danger of the Government's National Funding Formula proposals is that they will reduce or remove vital support for pupils from poorer backgrounds and those from families which are just about managing.

The New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement, or SAFE Act, includes a ban on all pre-1994 high capacity ammunition magazines, a ban on any magazine that holds over 7 rounds, and real - time background checks on ammunition purchases to alert law enforcement of high volume purchasing.

We know a lot more of tomorrow's Tory MPs are likely to be women, quite a few more will be from ethnic minority backgrounds and a lot will be gay... but is that real diversity?

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«That has a real impact because a jury of one's peers includes people who share similar life experiences and background.»